Combined device-and-anatomy boosting

Abstract

An apparatus and a method is proposed, for visualization of an object of interest together with a device being inside the object of interest. The apparatus comprises an image formation unit adapted for providing image information of the object of interest and the device, a processing unit and a display adapted for displaying the image, wherein the image is a combination of the image information of the device and the boosted image information of the object of interest. Here, the processing unit is adapted for performing the following steps: detecting and segmenting the device on the basis of image information provided by the image formation unit; wiping-out the image information of the device; detecting the object of interest on the basis of the provided image information; boosting the image information of the object of interest; re-inserting the image information of the device.

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